CFP: American Association of Law Libraries 2010 Annual Meeting (Denver, CO)

CFP: American Association of Law Libraries 2010 Annual Meeting (Denver, CO)

The American Association of Law Libraries is currently accepting proposals for their 2010 Annual Meeting (Denver, CO).

More information: http://proposals.aallnet.org/


Summit 2010: Mapping Our Future will be an occasion for building, inspiring, renewing and planning. We will examine each other's strengths, through case studies of services offered by individual libraries and other programs. We will discover "best practices" and fresh insights from speakers outside our profession, who offer us their knowledge and wisdom. We will remind ourselves of our commitment and dedication to our institutions and our customers. We will reconnect with each other and share these newfound aspirations and goals—our map for the future. The AALL Annual Meeting is an opportunity to connect face-to-face, to explore, and to consider opportunities for implementing new ideas.

Attendees of Summit 2010 will learn practical insights from colleagues who share similar experiences and situations and explore creative new ways of envisioning libraries and information services. We may ask challenging questions and empower ourselves to seek viable and imaginative solutions:

How do we build relationships that bridge divisions?
How do we sustain the networks we create?
Are information resources becoming "places?"
How will libraries' services transform as libraries themselves become more "virtual?"
What can we do to enhance the creation, design and flow of information?

All of you plan for the future. Every day, law librarians implement new ideas for building collections and improving information services. Law librarians have goals and dreams for a better tomorrow. We know that you will share these creative ideas, successful case studies, and perceptive visions with your colleagues.

Call for Papers: Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology

Call for Papers: Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology
Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology, Poznan, Poland, April 28, 2009.

Submission details: at http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/12th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=lit2009
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Submission deadline: Feb. 22, 2009

Here is a description: The Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology workshop held as part of the 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems. The BIS Conference is held annually and is a leading world conference in the area of Business Information Systems. Submissions are rigorously refereed. Accepted papers are published in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Series. After a long hiatus, the domain of Law and Information Technology is finally receiving much attention, not only from researchers, but also from practitioners. Hence there is a need for forums that discuss new research and innovative applications in Law and Information Technology.

Call for papers: The workshop is receptive to all papers dealing with any topic in the interdisciplinary domain of Law and Information Technology.

Topics

Automated semantic indexing, information extraction and categorization of legal documents
Computational models for legal reasoning
Information Technology and Dispute Resolution
Information Technology and Crime Prevention
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Law
Knowledge management in the legal domain
Legal argumentation
Legal discourse modeling and legal reasoning
Legal electronic agents
Legal Expert Systems
Legal ontologies and their creation and use
Legal reasoning and its computer representation
Natural language processing in law
Online Dispute Resolution
Question answering retrieval in law and governmental services
Risk management in law
Semantic Web technologies for law and e-government
Specialized knowledge representation and logics for law
Text mining and knowledge extraction in law

AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers

AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers

http://www.aallnet.org/about/award_call_for_papers.asp

The AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee is soliciting articles in three categories:

Open Division: For active and retired AALL members and law librarians with five or more years of professional experience. Papers are due by March 2, 2009;

New Members Division: For recent graduates and AALL members who have been in the profession for less than five years. Papers are due by March 2, 2009

Student Division: For students in library, information management or law school. Participants in this division need not be members of AALL. To submit in this category, you must have been enrolled in law school, or in a library school, information management, or an equivalent program, either in the Fall 2008 or Spring 2009 semester. Papers in the Student Division are due by April 15, 2009.

The winner in each division receives $750 donated by LexisNexis, plus the opportunity to present the winning paper at a program at the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Winning papers are also considered for publication in Law Library Journal.

For more information, a list of previous winners, an application and instructions on how to submit your article, visit the AALL website:

http://www.aallnet.org/about/award_call_for_papers.asp